The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Jean de Serres (1540 - 1598)
French historian and an advisor to King Henry IV during the Wars of Religion in the Sixteenth Century. An English translation of his A generall historie of France was published in England in 1611, with a "continuation" published in 1624. Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Serres Authority - early modernReferences in Documents:
Bargrave's Travel Diary (Canterbury Cathedral CCA U11/8)
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de la Noire :
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gaudy amongst strangers, it is as if one shold
light a candle to the Sunn.
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on by courtesie.
If his apparell be fashionable it matters not how
plaine it be; it being a ridiculous vanity to go
gaudy amongst strangers, it is as if one shold
light a candle to the Sunn.